Hey Josh,

I decided it was safer in both the short and long terms to reference as you suggested. I re-made all my connections onto the referenced rig. The only hitch is that I can't get the new glove geometry I made to follow the master move control. All the other hand controls work perfectly. As far as I can tell, the setting on each piece matches those on the original hands, which I just turned off visibility on. What am I missing here? I tried various parent constraints but alas! I'm running out of ideas.

Josh, I figured it out. I had them skinned to the wrist and not the palm. Problem resolved! I now have a weird thing happening where if I move the arms in IK mode and then zero out the value to get back to base pose, it doesn't return all the way. I have to switch to FK and zero out the individual joints. I have a jacket skinned to the body geo that I haven't fixed weights on, so maybe that's the issue? I'll probably animate in FK mode anyway so that problem is minimal so long as its not part of a larger problem.

Thanks again!

Hey Chris, yup, you should be able to do that fine. Make sure the body is zeroed out, dup it and feed that new geo into the body morph blendshape. Make your mods, turn on the weight of that channel so it's deforming the body and you should be good to go.

I cover the blendshape stuff to a pretty good detail in the Blendshape that vid and I cover a bit more in the faceware demo I did a couple of months back just search my name and 'faceware' on vimeo.

Happy Fourth!

Hey Green, solid white or just blown out? Possibly there is a light in the other rig coming in. Another possibility is the new rig is changing render settings somehow.

This is the first I've heard of this so sorry I don't have more insight. Maya version? Anyone else have idears?

Hi Josh and gang, total noob here. I don't see any morpheus icons on the toolbar when I restart Maya 2013. And all the other scripts are they loaded automatically?? BTW one of those links (jtdparentui) is no longer valid.
Your beginners video shows you "referencing" the rig but not the initial install and setup.
Like I said total noob.

,Jim

Thanks Josh, I'll happilly wait for Morpheus 2.0.

I don't see any of the options of parenting or switching to FK/IK or anything when I right click on the controls.

Hello,

i have a problem with the Morpheus Rig. I imported 2 Characters as References. Modeled Clothing for one of them and wanted to delete the Body_Geo Node. But i can't for it's giving me // Error: Cannot delete 'Jesus:body_geo' as it has locked or read-only children. //

i google the hack of it and cant find any solution. Now i even tried to import 2 morpheus rigs not as References. but then i have the problem, that both character have the same Node_names.

Any Suggestions ?

Regards 47thRonin

Hey guys, we're trying a new solution for supporting our rigs and tools. Please start posting your questions at keyframeco-op.com and we'll try to keep the answers in one spot. The site is in beta right now so we appreciate your help testing there.

zok, your answer is already there:)

47thRonin, it sound like your reference settings may not to set to resolve all nodes and some conflicts are happening or that you're trying to delete referenced geo which isn't possible. You should be making those geo changes in your referenced asset.

jnethery, no idea why 's' or 'delete' would stop working. Do you have any more info?

Kaiser, maya 2013 broke that. If you're in an early version it should be working when right clicking the appropriate control.

Having a problem rendering Morpheus. I'm rendering in Mental Ray in Maya 2013 on a referenced file and I'm getting large black rings around the eyeball. The pupil and iris are fine then there is a band of white then a band of black. I've tried changing settings in mental ray but without luck. The only thing that has made a difference is smoothing the eye but then I get two black bands around the eyeball.

Does anyone know how to fix this?
Is there a decent all purpose set of mental ray options that works well with Morpheus?

Latos, I've not done it but I've seen it done. Sorry don't know very much about cloth. Dive in and solve problems as they come up:)

Nixon, there is a teaserImage file that comes with the pack that I used to render the teaser image. Several folks have used that as a base.

Elena, it sounds like you're trying to move joints. Toggle off joint selection and select the nurbs curves to move things.

Please use http://keyframeco-op.com/ for future Morpheus questions. Thank you.

Hey All,

I am getting an error message when opening the morphy rig on maya 2012 on a mac.  When I open the rig I get the following alerts:

// Error:         artAttrCreateMenuItems( $parent, $paintAttr ); //
// Error: Wrong number of arguments on call to artAttrCreateMenuItems. //
// Error:         artAttrCreateMenuItems( $parent, $paintAttr ); //
// Error: Wrong number of arguments on call to artAttrCreateMenuItems. //
// Error:         artAttrCreateMenuItems( $parent, $paintAttr ); //
// Error: Wrong number of arguments on call to artAttrCreateMenuItems. //
// Error:         artAttrCreateMenuItems( $parent, $paintAttr ); //
// Error: Wrong number of arguments on call to artAttrCreateMenuItems. //

The rig seems to be working fine right now.  I just want to make sure that I don't get too far down the road with a shot and find that this error has serious ramifications.  I tried trashing the prefs, but the error still occurs.

ANy help you could give me would be greatly appreciated!

Hey guys! I recently made a handful of custom Morpheus characters. The feet were working up untill the end. At some point something happened that broke both feet controllers. Now whenever I move feet controllers either ways, I get this strange stretching. The controller still moves, but it seems the bottom of the feet are stuck to the ground. Here is a picture of the issue im getting. Please help! I have a Final due on Tuesday night that I need to have done this week.